Chinese Health Ministry investigating whether man died of bird flu in 2003

June 30, 2006 Bird Flu

(AP) -- China's Health Ministry is investigating whether a man initially thought to have SARS actually died of bird flu in 2003, two years before Beijing reported its first human case of the disease, the World Health Organization said Friday.



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